Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during lunch that an unwatched pan, bubbling over with boiling grease, ignited some coal dust in one of the flues and caused a cloud of smoke and a tongue of flame to issue from the roof over C entry of James Smith Hall. Simultaneously the kitchen and pantry filled with smoke and caused a huried retreat of chefs and maids...
...four hours, making possible prolonged operations. In Chicago, a certain dog, rendered unconcious daily for several years with ethylene, has yet shown no ill effects. An instrument was exhibited which has power to make visible the vital essence of man's life in the form of a thin flame shaking upon a thread. The electricity generated by the heart is carried to a silver quartz thread hanging in a magnetic field. As the heart strikes in and out, this faint fire shakes and shakes in the silver cord-patent to man, as it was of old to Atropos...
...characters talk as no man talked, act as no man acted, exist in a blazing phantasmal world where almost anything is almost sure to happen. Lacking a word, he coins one; where History or Science runs counter to his conception, he remakes History and Science. He is sheer imaginative flame run wild like a cosmic prairie fire. You can laugh at him-you cannot deny his vitality...
Such events, like tongues of flame bursting from smoldering embers, have more than once shown the covert development taking place. So far this deeper significance has been ignored. It may be that the future will be more fruitful of solution by the adoption of a policy of dispassionate recognition...
...position as librarian to marriage with a German Colonel (Noah Beery) ; to the arms of a young Lieutenant (Ben Lyon) ; and finally to an unhappy ending. In the elaboration of the story the picture develops its highest values. By kindling a spark of interest that smoulders steadily, bursting into flame with the shrewdly-considered climax, it marks a notable achievement for director Dimitri Buchowetski...